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Re:Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after ... by lispm on Thursday March 11, 2021 @05:57AM (#26422650)
> It didn’t force Merkel to do anything

Merkel would have governed against the strong will of the Germans to get rid of nuclear ASAP.

This topic has been intensely discussed in Germany for two decades already.

That was not a sustainable position. Mass protests would have awaited the government.

Re:Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after ... by kortilla on Thursday March 11, 2021 @06:12AM (#26422754)
> Merkel would have governed against the strong will

Her changing positions got a 10 point bump. It’s a large group for sure, but it’s still just placating dimwits to gain quick political support to stay in power. The vast majority clearly didn’t care.

Re:Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after ... by lispm on Thursday March 11, 2021 @07:03AM (#26423125)
> just placating dimwits

Only shows your lack of respect for the voters.

> The vast majority clearly didn’t care.

The vast majority did care. It was one of the hottest and longest debated politics topics.

Merkel knew everything about it, since she was before the responsible minister.

Re:Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after ... by kortilla on Sunday March 14, 2021 @07:46AM (#26454557)
> Only shows your lack of respect for the voters.

Lack of respect specifically for 10 percent of the voters who changed their view of a politician to a positive based solely on her caving into populist pressure to adopt a bad energy policy.

People are too ignorant to decide in any form of direct democracy how safe nuclear is. These dimwits chose to accelerate climate change (a well-known acute global problem) over nuclear power because “nuclear is scary” and didn’t support Merkel until she agreed. Despicable.

> The vast majority did care. It was one of the hottest and longest debated politics topics

Nope. The 10 point change showed how little it mattered. “Hottest political topics” just means people interested in national politics. It’s still irrelevant to the majority.

Re:Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after ... by okl on Thursday March 11, 2021 @09:45AM (#26424502)
Here is a survey from April 2011 that proves you wrong: https://www.infratest-dimap.de/fileadmin/_migrated/content_u...
Re:Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after ... by kortilla on Sunday March 14, 2021 @07:47AM (#26454563)
I don’t think that says what you think or you didn’t understand what I said.